Archive for November, 2011

On a Train

Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art, iPhone Art with tags , , , , on November 25, 2011 by Jenny

I’m coming up to the end of term at my Atelier school. At that point I will have graduated from my self-designed art school and, though I will always be learning, I will consider myself a fully fledged artist. I’m marking the moment by getting a bunch of pictures framed for the first time, to see what they really look like.

I made this small iPhone painting during a long and fairly arduous journey this week on South West Trains. The image is a bit European, as I am, and acted like a comforter – a kindly aunt or presiding angel for my slightly grim journey.

On A Train

lady on a train

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Soft Still Life

Posted in Art Prints, Painting Diary with tags , , , , , on November 22, 2011 by Jenny

Another exercise in oil painting; a still life at the Atelier school last night after a long day at work. At a certain point, I get really tired, and just have enough energy to make what I’ve done, not quite accurate as it is, look pretty. I couldn’t find the right colours- egg-yolk yellow for the vase etc – but I did get the right soft feeling to it all.

Soft Still Life

Onion & Vase (those onions, they're everywhere)

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Remembrance Poppy

Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art, Painting Diary with tags , , , , , on November 13, 2011 by Jenny

There are some years when Remembrance Sunday passes without very much impact; we buy a poppy, we give somber thanks and it’s gone. This year it seems a terrible, too sad and all too acute remembrance, with so many brave, young lives lost. All that potential, given and gone. All that blood. Here is my small tribute, a digital painting, my ‘wreath’ to all the brave soldiers who died for us. And those so recently gone. RIP

Remembrance

Remembrance Poppies

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Still Life – Onion and Jug

Posted in Painting Diary on November 7, 2011 by Jenny

Onion and Jug still life by JC Hall

Speed Painting - Still-Life: Onion & Jug

We did oil painting excercises in today’s Atelier class – painting Still Lives fast, with large brushes. My second painting, after the wine break, was rather relaxed…I was trying to get the feel and texture of the raw linen cloth, the earthenware and onion skin.

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Chiffon Veil

Posted in Art Prints, Digital Art, iPhone Art, Painting Diary with tags , , , , , , , on November 2, 2011 by Jenny

I’m missing painting on my iPhone. I love the translucency of it, and how every mark can be done and redone at super-speed, and how you can add layer over layer…of happy  (or unhappy) accidents. It’s so relaxed. This is somebody wearing a chiffon veil, with that very particular vintage colour of salmon pink lipstick.  Maybe they’re just about to put on their driving gloves and go for a spin in the charabanc – who knows. They seem to be very stylish and of indeterminate sex. Painted on my iPhone of course.

Veil by JCH

A chiffon veil over the face

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